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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

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Slideshow programs?

In three days time I need a program that can generate a slideshow using all the images in a directory and loop continuously. I also need this program to add new images to the slideshow as they're added to the folder. I was going to use the slideshow mode in gthumb, but it doesn't add new images to the slideshow without restarting it. Can anyone suggest a program?

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

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Re: Slideshow programs?

feh might have option(s) to do what you want. I know it has a slideshow mode, and you can set the delay - it very likely works if new images are added to the folder it looks in.

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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

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Re: Slideshow programs?

Unfortunately, feh doesn't check for new images added to the directory.

edit: I have come up with a solution:

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
    killall feh
    feh "$*`ls $* -c1 | sort -R | head -n1`" -x -F &
    sleep 5
done

The only downside is that there is a period of a second or so when feh is not open, between the killing feh and starting it again.

Last edited by Barrucadu (2008-12-14 13:38:19)

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stojic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: Slideshow programs?

You can use a script to periodically create a link named current to files in directory, and use feh's -R switch (reload switch). This works very good.

This is rotate.sh script with 2 second slideshow delay:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
        for filename in *; do
                if (test "$filename" != "current" && test "$filename" != "rotate.sh"); then
                        ln -fs "$filename" current
                        sleep 2
                fi
        done
done

You put it in the directory where images are, and start it there. Then you start feh like this:

$ feh -R 1 /path/to/images_dir/current

Just make sure that feh's refresh interval is shorter than slideshow interval, otherwise it might miss some images.

TjPhysicist

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From: Waterloo, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-12

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Re: Slideshow programs?

picasa?

I know it adds images as theyre added to the folder. And it has slideshow

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freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: Slideshow programs?

Eye of Gnome does all you want.